{"id":95,"date":"2004-05-24T14:09:48","date_gmt":"2004-05-24T14:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.truth.posiweb.net\/notes\/?p=95"},"modified":"2004-05-24T14:09:48","modified_gmt":"2004-05-24T14:09:48","slug":"the-development-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2004\/05\/24\/the-development-set\/","title":{"rendered":"The Development Set"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\nThe Development Set<br \/>By Ross Coggins<\/p>\n<p>        Excuse me, friends, I must catch my jet-<br \/>\n        I&#8217;m off to join the Development Set;<br \/>\n        My bags are packed, and I&#8217;ve had all my shots,<br \/>\n        I have travelers&#8217; checks, and pills for the trots<\/p>\n<p>        The Development Set is bright and noble,<br \/>\n        Our thoughts are deep and our vision global;<br \/>\n        Although we move with the better classes,<br \/>\n        Our thoughts are always with the masses.<\/p>\n<p>        In Sheraton hotels in scattered nations,<br \/>\n        We damn multinational corporations;<br \/>\n        Injustice seems so easy to protest,<br \/>\n        In such seething hotbeds of social rest.<\/p>\n<p>        We discuss malnutrition over steaks<br \/>\n        And plan hunger talks during coffee breaks.<br \/>\n        Whether Asian floods or African drought,<br \/>\n        We face each issue with an open mouth.<\/p>\n<p>        We bring in consultants whose circumlocution<br \/>\n        Raises difficulties for every solution-<br \/>\n        Thus guaranteeing continued good eating<br \/>\n        By showing the need for another meeting.<\/p>\n<p>        The language of the Development Set<br \/>\n        Stretches the English alphabet;<br \/>\n        We use swell words like &#8216;epigenetic&#8217;,<br \/>\n        &#8216;Micro&#8217;, &#8216;Macro&#8217;. and &#8216;logarithmetic&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>        Development Set homes are extremely chic,<br \/>\n        Full of carvings, curios and draped with batik.<br \/>\n        Eye-level photographs subtly assure<br \/>\n        That your host is at home with the rich and the poor.<\/p>\n<p>        Enough of these verses &#8212; on with the mission!<br \/>\n        Our task is as broad as the human condition!<br \/>\n        Just parry to God the biblical promise is true:<br \/>\n        The poor ye shall always have with you.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From Graham Hancock&#8217;s book &#8220;Lords of Poverty&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Development SetBy Ross Coggins Excuse me, friends, I must catch my jet- I&#8217;m off to join the Development Set; My bags are packed, and I&#8217;ve had all my shots, I have travelers&#8217; checks, and pills for the trots The Development Set is bright and noble, Our thoughts are deep and our vision global; Although [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5KQtW-1x","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}